Thursday, January 13, 2011

Freezing Rain Snowflake Craft

With the weather, this week, turning from snow, to rain, to freezing rain, with more of the same cycle in the forecast, we weren't sure whether to make snowflakes, raindrops, or spring flowers for our windows.

But, after watching the Man of the House skate across the driveway to get to his truck, this morning, I decided spring flowers were probably out, and we settled on freezing rain, instead.

We started with the usual scribble, and spray coffee filter method.

Then, when the filters were dry, I cut them into raindrop shapes.

The older children took over with the fold, and snip snowflake portion, concentrating on the round, bottom end of the rain drops.

For an icy touch, we brushed on salt paint (as seen this morning on Superheros and Princesses). I tried leaving out the actual paint, in hopes of a clear, sparkly look, held on by the starch. But without the paint, most of the salt just brushed away when it was dry.

But, the girls had a fun time painting, and the snowflake designs on our raindrops lend an appropriately wintry look to our January windows with or without, the salt crystal ice.

I have been saving spray bottles for ages.. just so we can do something "sprayed", as I know my son would A-D-O-R-E it!!! Thank you for the reminder and thank you for such a CUTE craft. They look wonderful!

Nice craft. I taught school for 30 years. I am sure that during science you discussed the fact that snowflakes have 6 points and their crystal formation. In art, however, there is more leeway. My sister is homeschooling her son this year, 7th grade. He has a label...ADHD...and had no support at school. She is having trouble with writing tasks. Do you know some good sites?

Evelyn and zukigirl -- yes, we have gotten more scientific about our snowflakes at other times :)

Evelyn - I'm sorry, we don't have a favorite writing resource. We use LearningExpress books, but it is one of the subjects we unschool more than not - mainly because we haven't found a book, or site we just love.

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